Nikolaos Tsagkas

PhD candidate @ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

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Informatics Forum,

10 Crichton Street,

Edinburgh, EH8 9AB

I am a PhD candidate, at the School of Informatics - University of Edinburgh, sponsored by the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. I am privileged to be advised by Prof. Chris Xiaoxuan Lu (UCL) and Prof. Oisin Mac Aodha (UoE). My research interests revolve around spatial perception and representations aimed at addressing challenges in robotics.

In November 2021, I completed with distinction the Artificial Intelligence master’s programme at the University of Edinburgh, where I worked under the supervision of Prof. Chris Williams on the topic of inference and learning for generative capsule models. Before that, I worked for a year as a Data Scientist at Ernst & Young. In August 2019, I was awarded the Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, in Greece (graduated 4th in my class out of 202 students – GPA: 8.11 out of 10). I completed my ECE Diploma thesis under the supervision of Prof. Athanassios Skodras, researching real-time hand-gesture recognition via sEMG signals.

:loudspeaker: News: I will be presenting my work at IROS’24 in Abu Dhabi, followed by the BMVA Symposium: Robotics Foundation & World Models in London. Come say hi if you’re there!

Publications

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    Learning Precise Affordances from Egocentric Videos for Robotic Manipulation
    Gen Li , Nikolaos Tsagkas , Jifei Song , Ruaridh Mon-Williams , Sethu Vijayakumar , Kun Shao , and Laura Sevilla-Lara
    In ArXiv Preprint , 2024
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    Click to Grasp: Zero-Shot Precise Manipulation via Visual Diffusion Descriptors [Oral Pitch + Poster]
    Nikolaos Tsagkas , Jack Rome , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Oisin Mac Aodha , and Chris Xiaoxuan Lu
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, UAE , 2024
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    VL-Fields: Towards Language-Grounded Neural Implicit Spatial Representations [Spotlight Talk + Poster]
    Nikolaos Tsagkas , Oisin Mac Aodha , and Chris Xiaoxuan Lu
    In ICRA Workshops, London, UK , 2023
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    Inference and Learning for Generative Capsule Models
    Alfredo Nazabal* , Nikolaos Tsagkas* , and Christopher K. I. Williams
    Neural Computation, 2023
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    On the Use of Deeper CNNs in Hand Gesture Recognition Based on sEMG Signals [Oral Presentation]
    Nikolaos Tsagkas , Panagiotis Tsinganos , and Athanassios Skodras
    In 10th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA), Patras, Greece , 2019
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